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Okay, a break from the political stuff today.\u00a0 Camera Girl and I took a day off (sort of).\u00a0 There was an antique car show to go to and used that as an excuse to gallivant around and eat some bad food and visit some of our old stomping grounds.<\/p>\n

When we got to the car show there were only two cars there; an ancient VW micro-bus and a not-so exciting 1980\u2019s Chrysler of some sort.\u00a0 We asked someone at a nearby business and they explained that the show builds up over time and if we came back in a couple of hours it would be much more substantial.<\/p>\n

Okay.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an old-fashioned food stand that\u2019s only open in the summer.\u00a0 It serves burgers, foot-long dogs, fries, fried onions and fried fish.\u00a0 Many years ago, some of our kids worked there in the summers.\u00a0 Well, suffice it to say, this isn\u2019t exactly health food.\u00a0 But, so what?\u00a0 We were out and about and foot-long hot dogs with mustard and relish was exactly what I wanted.\u00a0 The batter fried onions were questionable from my perspective but I followed Camera Girl\u2019s lead on that front.\u00a0 Well, no major gastroenterological damage was noted after this meal so we proceeded back to ground zero.<\/p>\n

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And, voila!\u00a0 Classic cars from the 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s and beyond.\u00a0 And as a background for this automotive time machine was a loudspeaker blasting out the doowop hits of 1960 \u2013 1963.\u00a0 Of course, I was in kindergarten at that point but I of course recognize and enjoy these golden oldies.\u00a0 If only I had my leather jacket and enough hair to sport a DA and if Camera Girl had been wearing her pink sweater and poodle skirt we could have danced the afternoon away.\u00a0 Well, that is if I could dance.\u00a0 But no, I settled for a few off-key falsetto notes to \u201cWhy Do Fool Fall in Love?\u201d and left it at that.<\/p>\n

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Well, I put my 10mm Voigtlander super-duper wide-angle lens on my Sony A7IV and clicked away for an hour or so.\u00a0 But then I was reminded that this show comes back every week so we left and headed home for a few more photos around the yard.\u00a0 So far this year there haven\u2019t been many prime butterflies.\u00a0 Mostly only the medium sized ones, Fritillaries and Painted Ladies and such.<\/p>\n

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But as I walked around, I ran into a Monarch and I chased it around in circles for a quarter of an hour.\u00a0 It was incredibly skittish and I was aggravated by its evasiveness.\u00a0 Finally, I had enough and put my camera away and sure enough as soon as I did, that darned thing calmed down and almost seemed to be following me around, hanging at my elbow.\u00a0 This ticked me off so I waved my arms and ran after it and chased it away.\u00a0 Anyone watching would have assumed I was a hopeless idiot.\u00a0 And come to think of it there may be something in that.<\/p>\n

But all in all, a very enjoyable day out with the missus.\u00a0 July in New England really is a pretty great time of the year.\u00a0 Too bad it ends so quickly.\u00a0 But all good things must.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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